I hope this will be a forum to facilitate collaboration on our Curriclum and our Curriculum Map (ATLAS). It can be a place to assist with collaboration, to share ideas, to serve as a respository of informationto comment on the curriculum mapping process, or to ask questions and get answers. It can also serve as a log of our work, for accreditation, for our own uses, and for posterity! I am monitoring all of the posts, so if you make a comment or ask a question, even on a specific discipline page, I'll be able to see it an offer a reply if need be (if, of course, I am the most appropriate person to offer the reply). To begin, I've created a page for each Department and for each Grade Level, but if this proves effective we can create an unlimited number of pages, for specific disciplines and even individual courses.
For a link to our Curriculum Map, click here: ATLAS
Update (10/5): The Grade Level and Department pages are now built. On each page, you will find the respective information from the August 17 and September 2 meetings. On the "History and Documents" page, you will find the published agendas for these meetings, as well as consolidated "minutes" so to speak of each of the meetings. We are just beginning, but hopefully, we will be able to use the wiki to faciliate communication and reflection on our curriculum. I hope that you will be able to use the reports from the previous meetings this year to help guide your discussions in Department Curriculum meetings on Oct 7. In these meetings, perhaps you would like to follow-up on, or see how you are doing, on the issues you identified as important in your department curriculum meeting on August 17? Or, you may wish to browse the grade level pages and minutes, to see if some of the topics discussed in those contexts have some relevance to your department as a whole. Please note that the BOT Education Committee is meeting on Oct 15th to receive an update from Department Chairs and Coordinators on curriculum mapping. You may want to develop some talking points with your deparment for this meeting, but additionally, it would be advisable to insist with your department members that their maps are fully developed, at least through Week 8, but the time of the Education Committee meeting.
Recent Update (10/1/09): I've had this project in mind for a while now, but am only now finding the time to create it. Please be patient. The Grade Level pages are built, but sparse. On the home page for grade levels though, you will find the key issues that faculty at each grade level identified as concerns at that grade level. I hope that faculty teaching courses to students in each grade level will keep in mind these issues, and to the degree that they appear in the curriculum, indicate as such in your respective curriculum maps. That way, at the end of the year, we will be able to study these issues in our curriculum, by among other ways, analyzing our curriculum maps.
I hope this will be a forum to facilitate collaboration on our Curriclum and our Curriculum Map (ATLAS). It can be a place to assist with collaboration, to share ideas, to serve as a respository of informationto comment on the curriculum mapping process, or to ask questions and get answers. It can also serve as a log of our work, for accreditation, for our own uses, and for posterity! I am monitoring all of the posts, so if you make a comment or ask a question, even on a specific discipline page, I'll be able to see it an offer a reply if need be (if, of course, I am the most appropriate person to offer the reply). To begin, I've created a page for each Department and for each Grade Level, but if this proves effective we can create an unlimited number of pages, for specific disciplines and even individual courses.
For a link to our Curriculum Map, click here: ATLAS
Update (10/5): The Grade Level and Department pages are now built. On each page, you will find the respective information from the August 17 and September 2 meetings. On the "History and Documents" page, you will find the published agendas for these meetings, as well as consolidated "minutes" so to speak of each of the meetings. We are just beginning, but hopefully, we will be able to use the wiki to faciliate communication and reflection on our curriculum. I hope that you will be able to use the reports from the previous meetings this year to help guide your discussions in Department Curriculum meetings on Oct 7. In these meetings, perhaps you would like to follow-up on, or see how you are doing, on the issues you identified as important in your department curriculum meeting on August 17? Or, you may wish to browse the grade level pages and minutes, to see if some of the topics discussed in those contexts have some relevance to your department as a whole. Please note that the BOT Education Committee is meeting on Oct 15th to receive an update from Department Chairs and Coordinators on curriculum mapping. You may want to develop some talking points with your deparment for this meeting, but additionally, it would be advisable to insist with your department members that their maps are fully developed, at least through Week 8, but the time of the Education Committee meeting.
Recent Update (10/1/09): I've had this project in mind for a while now, but am only now finding the time to create it. Please be patient. The Grade Level pages are built, but sparse. On the home page for grade levels though, you will find the key issues that faculty at each grade level identified as concerns at that grade level. I hope that faculty teaching courses to students in each grade level will keep in mind these issues, and to the degree that they appear in the curriculum, indicate as such in your respective curriculum maps. That way, at the end of the year, we will be able to study these issues in our curriculum, by among other ways, analyzing our curriculum maps.